Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court.
The Wisconsin voter identification win is so noteworthy as Booker finished his mock filibuster of more than 24 hours because state voter ID laws were the reason then-President Joe Biden and then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pushed to end the Senate’s filibuster rule in 2022.
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